Fiji's former permanent representative to the United Nations says his successor in New York will have to contend with challenges from mainly Australia and New Zealand which have criticised the 2006 military coup.
The comment was made by Isikia Savua who told fijilive.com that Berenado Vunibobo will have to defend the interim government.
Mr Savua says every time Australia spoke it would mention something about Fiji as did New Zealand and India.
He also says there will be continued talk to remove Fiji from participating in UN peacekeeping operations.
But he says he is confident that Fiji will not lose its standing with the UN because of Fiji's support for the UN's work in Iraq.
Mr Vunibobo, who was the foreign minister in the late 1990's under Sitiveni Rabuka, is expected to go to New York at the end of this month.
